Practice Prof. Dr. Koss and colleagues
Nymphenburgerstr. 4
80335 Munich
Phone: +49 89 183 511
E-mail: info@prof-michael-koss.de
Fax: +49 89 123 8544
- 1998-2005 Studies of Human Medicine Erlangen, TU and LMU Munich
- 2005-2010 Residency at the University Eye Hospital Frankfurt am Main
- 2006 Doctoral thesis: Susceptibility of the new fluoqinolones against the normal and multiresistant conjunctival flora; LMU Munich and Stanford University / California; sponsored by the Hannelore Zimmermann Foundation / Munich
- 2007 Start of surgical activities with focus on cataract and retina/vitreous surgery
- 2010 Founding of the Retina Research Center at the University Eye Hospital Frankfurt am Main
- 2010 German and European Specialist in Ophthalmology (FEBO)
- 2012 Habilitation in ophthalmology with the topic: Minimally invasive, innovative treatment concepts for retinal diseases away from the "injection for the eye" (Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt am Main)
- 2010-2012 Senior physician at the Univ. Eye Clinic Frankfurt am Main
- 2012-2014 Research stay at the University of Southern California (USC) funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG KO4294/1-1) ad personam: therapy of dry age-related macular degeneration by transplantation of RPE cells differentiated from human embryonic stem cells
- 2014-2016 Senior physician and head of retinology with clinical research, Heidelberg University Eye Hospital
- 2016 apl Professorship University of Heidelberg
- 2016 Master of Healthcare Administration (MHBA)
Awards and prizes
- 2007 and 2010 Film Award of the German Ophthalmic Surgeons (DOC)
- 2010 Film Award of the American Society of Retina Specialists (ASRS)
- 2013 Leonhard-Klein Award of the German Ophthalmological Society (DOG)
- 2014 Best Lecture "Retinal Surgery" German Ophthalmic Surgeons (DOC)
- Cataract surgery, if necessary using relaxing corneal incisions and refractive intraocular lenses (toric, multifocal, add-ons, phakic lenses)
- Corneal surgery (lamellar, perforating)
- Refractive eye laser treatments
- Glaucoma surgery with so-called MIGS (glaucoma implants)
- Individualized pharmacotherapy ("injection for the eye" or IVOM) for AMD, diabetes and retinal thrombosis
- Tissue-sparing subthreshold micropulse treatments
- Vitreolyselaser treatments